Linwood Barclay Quotes

I think about how much I used to work and how much I used to make that the priority.

You can't work all your life.

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

I have earned enough money in my life. When I started my career, for about 10 years, I told myself I want to make money. Now, I just want to do different roles.

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker.

Working is actually a pleasure. It's just very time-consuming. It's a way of life. I find that I can work when I travel and work when I run. There is nothing like, on a rainy day, to work.

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

I like normal life, but I will go crazy if I'm not working.

I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?

I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

My life is very much consumed with work.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

I was a waiter before 'The Office,' so to me, this was a winning lottery ticket. Everything about my life has changed.

I went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work?

I come into work late morning time and go at it until early evening, and I'm lucky that I'm at the point where I'm able to do that.

I would have done something else in life. Something more calming, in a different area where I did not have to use my emotions.

I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.

I don't know how anyone could stop working.

The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic.